#Western United States

Author: Lindsay Fendt / Source: Atlas Obscura There’s an old saying in the West: Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over. In Colorado, home to more breweries than almost any other state, it’s probably more accurate to say that beer is for drinking. And although brewers haven’t yet

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News The driving force behind Yellowstone’s long and explosive volcanic history may not be as deep as once thought. A new study suggests that instead of a plume of hot mantle that extends down to Earth’s core, the real culprit is a subducting tectonic

In an attack that was eerily similar to the shooting at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino in Las Vegas that claimed 59 lives in October, an unidentified gunman took a hostage and opened fire from the eighth floor of a luxury high-rise condominium in Reno, Nevada. Amazingly, no bystanders were

After weeks of speculation whether Trump would pardon sheriff Joe Arpaio - who on July 31 was found guilty of defying a court order barring officers from stopping Latino drivers on suspicion they were in US illegally, bringing his tenure as a crusader against illegal immigration to an end - as he

Following a swarm of over 1100 earthquakes recorded in the Yellowstone caldera over the past month, prompting scientists to voice concerns about a dormant Yellowstone "Supervolcano" slowly waking up, overnight these concerns escalated after a strong M5.8 earthquake hit western Montana early on